Trial by Plea Bargain

In the wheeling, dealing world of federal pleas and bargaining for sentences, a trial by jury is sometimes an afterthought. Last year, guilty pleas resolved more than 97 percent of federal cases prosecuted to conclusion by the Justice Department. That rate is way up along with the number of federal criminal defendants in the past decade, a number that has doubled.

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unkerjay
from Puget Sound, WA

"Justice" if applied as defined would mean finding the innocent "innocent" and the guilty "guilty".

"Justice" that finds the innocent "guilty" and guilty"innocent" that has a different standard for the well-to-do,the famous than for the poor, the less well known is anabomination of the word, of the process.

Racking up a conviction rate mindless of that is an excuseeither not to work with the system or to avoid it at all possiblecosts.

And, since it was brought up yet again, what exactly is the benefitof denying convicted felons the right to vote as compared to saydenying embezzlers employment at banks or pedophiles positions atschools - both understandable by comparison.